Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerable many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of thos… - Friedrich Nietzsche

Unglück. - Die Auszeichnung, welche im Unglück liegt (als ob es ein Zeichen von Flachheit, Anspruchslosigkeit, Gewöhnlichkeit sei, sich glücklich zu fühlen), ist so gross, dass wenn Jemand Einem sagt: "Aber wie glücklich Sie sind!" man gewöhnlich protestirt.

Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.—Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.